Insect-catcher.



PATENTE D APR. '7, 1908. ENBAGH.

0.17. KRONENBBRG.& H. STRANZ INSECT OATCHER. 'AIfILIOATION mum JUNE21.1906.

WITNESSES INVENTOHS u UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. KRONENBERG AND HERMANN STRANZENBACH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

INSECT-CATCHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April '7, 1908.

in Insect-Catchers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to insect exterminatorsor insect catchersand more particularly to that class of the same in which there isemployed an adhesive or sticky material such as a slow drying varnish orsimilar substances for catching the insects.

Devices of this general character consist mostly of plain surfaces-suchas sheets or tapes, laced either horizontally or hung up vertica ly.

The present invention consists of a collapsible hollow body of anydesired shape or configuration, such as a prism, pyramid or a 'cone,being provided on its outside with the said adhesive material. Aplurality of the devices are usually packed collapsed along linespassing through the vertex of the pyramid or con'e one on top of theother, or in a container, with their sticky surfaces placed together,each device is provided with means for causing it to take its operativeshape when removed from its container or pack.

The device is illustrated in two of its forms in the drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective front view of the device, Fig. 2 is a similarview of a pack or series of the devices, held together by the adhesionof the sticky surfaces, Fig. 3 is a view from below of Fig. 1, and Fig.4 is a similar view to Fig. 1 of a modified form.

In making the device, a blank of self-sup porting material, such asstiff paper or cardboard or other similar material is coated on one sidewith an adhesive or sticky substance and then suitably folded alonglines passing through the vertex of the pyramid or cone so that inpacking the devices for storage or transportation, a series of the samemay be laced with their sticky surfaces together. n Fig. 2 of thedrawing, a pack of these insect catchers is illustrated, each of which,when opened, takes the shape of a pyramid, as shown in Fig. 1. The twosides 1 and 2 of one device are placed in contact with the remaining twoof the four sides of the next blank. The side 1 of the blank ispreferably provided with one member of a locking device, such as thetongue 4, which engages a slot 5 of the adjoining side 2.

The base of each side of the pyramid may be provided with an up-turnededge 3 for the purpose of preventing the running off of the stickysubstance and the soiling of the locality where the catcher is placed orhung up on its hook or loop 6, made of cord, wire, etc. and located onthe vertex of the pyramid.

Two diagonally opposite edges of the collapsible hollow body areconnected with an elas tic or resilient means, such as a rubber band 7.This band 7 is referably of a length equal to the diagonaFdistance oftwo 0 p0- site edges of the device when in its final 'orm of gvpyramid,cone or prism.

hen acked together, as shown in Fig. 2, the ban 7 is stretched beyondits normal length, so that in removing one blank from the rest of thepackage, the band 7 will return to its normal length and, therefore,

cause the device to take its final shape, for

instance that shown in Fig. 1.

The blanks may be removed from the,

package, by simply lifting the same by means of the eye 6, so that thedevice will obtain its form without using, and thereby soiling, thehand. I

Fig. 4 illustrates a modification of the invention in the shape of afour-sided prism and the locking device consists of an overlappingportion 8, held to the abutting side by staples 9.

As new and useful is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patentof the United States A pack formed of collapsed pyramidic bodies, eachof which is formed of a single blank comprising a number of triangularsides and a corresponding number of trapeziform extensions on the baseof said sides and adapted to be turned upward so as to form a rim, oneof said sides having a number of slots and another of said sides anumber of tongues adapted to engage said slots and form thereby apyramidic body collapsible along lines passing through the vertex of thepyramid, each body having an outer coating of adhesive material andadapted to adhere to the adjoining body, the rim on the base of York andState of New York this twelfth day each side of the pyramid notadhering, a loop of June A. D. 1906.

on the Vertex, and an elastic means secured to two opposite points ofthe base of the pyramids and adapted to open the same on re moving itfrom its adjoining collapsed pyra- Witnesses: m R. J. SAOHERS,

Signed at New York in the county of New VIoToR KERTISZ.

